Wh many LGBTQ bars and safe spac closg after COVID-19, wrer John Garry qutns the future of gay bars and LGBTQ safe spac.
Contents:
- GAY HAPPY HOUR, NTRAL PRONOUNS, A ‘GLAM ROOM’: HOTELS GO LGBTQ-IENDLY
- GAY BARS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE SPAC. BUT THEY OFTEN WEREN’T.
- GAY BARS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE SPAC. BUT THEY OFTEN WEREN’T.
- THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
GAY HAPPY HOUR, NTRAL PRONOUNS, A ‘GLAM ROOM’: HOTELS GO LGBTQ-IENDLY
* gay safe spaces *
Ameri’s gay bar graveyard has amassed a soberg amount of headston the past year. The immediate e of the aths might be COVID-19, but gay bars were on life support before the panmic began. Acrdg to soclogist Greggor Mattson, 37 percent of US gay bars closed between 2007 and 2019.
GAY BARS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE SPAC. BUT THEY OFTEN WEREN’T.
Gay clubs and safe spac have historilly offered a place for experienc and road-ttg new looks, inty exprsns, sir and orientatns. Like “gettg a rse.” * gay safe spaces *
Sometime between the birth of datg apps, marriage equaly, and gayborhood gentrifitn, tradnal gay bars beme sential. What will bee of the gay bar? The menu at a gay bar is the tip of an iceberg — only shows a portn of what’s served si.
GAY BARS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE SPAC. BUT THEY OFTEN WEREN’T.
In the recently released cultural history and memoir, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton L wr, “a gay bar, will be said, affords refuge. Whether ’s Stonewall or the Stud, gay bars have been nsired LGBTQ “safe spac” — a term scholar and activist Moira Kenney attribut to the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
Through the late 1960s, route police raids meant gay bar patrons uld be threatened wh f, jail time, and possibly job loss or social annihilatn if outed by thori. In 1973, an anti-gay arsonist set fire to a New Orleans gay lounge and killed 32 people. Even as a momentary refuge om the outsi world, gay bars ntuoly fail queer people.